Combining social history with feminist analysis, this study centres on the debates and ideologies of a radical group of London intellectuals of the 1880s, which included such figures as H.G.Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Havelock Ellis, Beatrice Webb, Rebecca West and others.
Contents:
A Derbyshire idyll --
Olive Schreiner and the new men --
The uses of principle 1 : Havelock and Edith --
Eleanor and Edward : end of the long, sad years --
The uses of principle 2 : H.G.'s new utopia --
The sage and the woman rebel --
Conclusion: The new women and the old men.
